Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amazed at the comprehensive and lucid coverage of your Pacific war news. Those of us who are in the thick of it can appreciate the excellent job you are doing. . . . Each of us is engaged in our own little phase of operations. Then we sit back, read TIME and get the overall picture. It makes us twice as proud of the part we played...
...Staff Sergeant Edward Cooper, who described the attack as "epic, colossal, historymaking. It is the only one in recent months not made by mighty swarms of four-engined bombers. We failed to shoot down 120 enemy planes. We did not obliterate the target, and despite flak which was not thick enough to walk on, we did not start fires visible for 80 miles...
...legal tangles that resulted when the old frame courthouse burned down in 1932 and most of the county's land records went with it. Oilmen, betting that Mississippi would become a major oil-producing state, excitedly pointed out that Heidelberg's oil sands are 200 ft. thick; a 30-ft. oil sand was supposed to be "good" in Texas and Oklahoma...
...Goodbye (by George Seaton; produced by John Golden) tries to perk up a tale of mousy living people by introducing some lively dead ones. The spirits are a just-dead, good-natured New England paterfamilias (Harry Carey) and his long-dead, thick-brogued, high cockalorum of a father (J. Pat O'Malley). They scuttle, garrulous and unobserved, about the parlor watching the effect of death on the household, bemoaning their earthly shortcomings, trying by spectral ruses to straighten out the mess in which the dead man left his affairs...
...entire planet in generously buttered mush. Ted Lewis talks through his top hat, and everybody who has ever liked Lewis-or John Barrymore -is happy. There are at least a dozen other acts, some of them all right. But they seem like three dozen, and the air gets so thick with self-congratulation that it is hard to see the patriotism...